Appreciation Quotes

Doc Childre and Sara Paddision, HeartMath Discovery Program Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that “appreciates” grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution When you’re in the grip of frustration, love can seem pretty much out of the question. Care is going to be a stretch. But appreciation is easy—even if it starts out kind of snide like, “I appreciate the fact I haven’t fallen flat on my face … yet.” After a couple of stabs at it, you’re going to stumble across one that sincerely touches you. Maybe it’s your friends, your partner, your loved ones. One strong dose of appreciation can turn your perceptions around 180 degrees.

Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart The word “appreciation” means to be thankful and express admiration, approval, or gratitude. It also means to grow or appreciate in value. As you appreciate life, you become more valuable—both to yourself and others.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the planet and help strengthen the universal bond all people have.

Doc Childre, The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that’s true, but it is. If nothing else, it’s a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that!

Doc Childre and Sara Paddision, HeartMath Discovery Program What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment.

Mother Teresa There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Louise Erdrich In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body’s interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers’ bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world…Once we no longer live beneath our mother’s heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying…on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

Albert Schweitzer Hear our prayer O Lord…for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in capitivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death…and for those who deal with them, we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

Harper Lee Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Victor Kiam What’s really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we’re alive for only a limited period of time, and we’ll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

Kahlil Gibran I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.